Haha... That made me giggle. I suppose Clinton has a point, but citing Gehry's architecture is a bit silly. I have a feeling that's the only modern architect she knows by name.
Anyway, who's work would I model the world After? It has to be Carlo Scarpa for sure... My new world model will have a modern character while respecting our history and learning from past mistakes !

But it's not surprising. Civilians often talk about architecture either symbolically or literally, but not for very long, because it's not their field and they don't know much. The ones who went to college know a name or two, which they toss into their patter like croutons into a salad.

Of course, architects do this, too, about other topics we know little about. It's all good.

"...Piranesi's truly unique urban paradigm -- a city "reenacting" itself through all its physical, sociopolitical, and even metaphysical layers -- may well become the most real urban paradigm of the next millennium."

"Here a Versailles, there a Versailles, everywhere a Versailles, sigh."

I'm consistently amazed at how many people don't know about Louis Sullivan...in freaking Chicago. I may or may have not used that as a deciding factor on whether or not a girl gets a second date in the not so distant past.

i thought it was cool that she saw a need to deal with complex problems with flexibility and messiness rather than insist on rigid classical and outdated ones. that gehry gets to be the poster boy for that sort of thing is icing.